New Era recently announced the return of NFL helmet hats — think the design of a football helmet with logos on each side (except for the Steelers), but on a baseball cap. The concept was first introduced back in the 1980s by a company called Louisville, which utilized an ad campaign in which an NFL […]
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P.J. Carlesimo can’t remember the exact play, but he can’t forget how helpless it made him feel. It took place on Martin Luther King Jr. Day last season, in the second half of an Atlanta Hawks home game against the San Antonio Spurs. Spurs rookie Victor Wembanyama reached back, using his 7-foot-4 frame and massive […]
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With the Pittsburgh Pirates out of playoff contention, first baseman Rowdy Tellez was playing for an opportunity to receive a $200,000 bonus based on plate appearances. He entered Tuesday with 421 plate appearances, four away from earning that additional bonus. For Tellez, the chance was dashed. With five games left in the regular season, the […]
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Football shirts were once an item of clothing for a) players to wear at work, and b) fans to sport on the terraces in solidarity with the lads out on the pitch. Now, what must seem abruptly to the uninitiated, they have become the uniform for British music festivals and a source of inspiration for […]
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Kamala Harris’s campaign has framed the election in part as a fight to preserve American democracy. Donald Trump is the only U.S. president who has refused to accept his loss, in the 2020 election. Maggie Astor, a politics reporter at The New York Times, breaks down Harris and Trump’s policies on a pivotal topic: democracy. […]
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Gisèle Pelicot waived anonymity to make public the trial of her former husband and the 50 men accused of joining him in raping her. The trial has revived the question of consent within French law and turned Ms. Pelicot into a feminist icon. Catherine Porter, an international correspondent for The New York Times based in […]
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By Tim Britton, Chad Jennings and Kaitlyn McGrath Every week, we ask a selected group of our baseball writers — local and national — to rank the teams from first to worst. Here are the collective results. Well then, we’ve made it — through 25 weeks of power rankings, through ups and downs and surprises and […]
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The NFL has evolved to a point where a record 15 Black starting quarterbacks started Week 1 of the 2024 season. That’s a far cry from when Warren Moon chose to sign with the CFL’s Edmonton Eskimos after a standout college career at Washington because he felt he wouldn’t get a fair opportunity to run an offense […]
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ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — The “M-V-P!” chants inside Highmark Stadium began with 3:25 still left in the first quarter. Though excitedly premature, Buffalo Bills fans weren’t wrong. They simply couldn’t know Josh Allen was merely beginning his onslaught Monday night. By halftime, he’d already had one of the greatest statistical games of his career. But […]
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We are about a quarter of the way through the college football season, and there has been no shortage of drama. Three of the 12 teams projected to make the College Football Playoff by my model in the preseason are no longer in the field, and three teams that were on the bubble have also […]
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